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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
1810 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Where is palafox? Nor tongue nor pen
Last Line: On rampart, and the banks of all her streams.
Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain
First Line: Ah! Where is palafox? Nor tongue nor pen
Last Line: On rampart, and the banks of all her streams.
Subject(s): Napoleonic Wars; Spain
AH! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen
Reports of him, his dwelling or his grave!
Does yet the unheard-of vessel ride the wave?
Or is she swallowed up, remote from ken
Of pitying human nature? Once again
Methinks that we shall hail thee, Champion brave,
Redeemed to baffle that imperial Slave,
And through all Europe cheer desponding men
With new-born hope. Unbounded is the might
Of martyrdom, and fortitude, and right.
Hark, how thy Country triumphs! -- Smilingly
The Eternal looks upon her sword that gleams,
Like his own lightning, over mountains high,
On rampart, and the banks of all her streams.
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